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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 25:3

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Job25:3

3. Is there any number of his armies ? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Of the Angels, and Stars, and other Creatures, all which are his Hosts wholly submitting themselves to his Will, to be and do what God would have them: And therefore how insolent and unreasonable a thing is it for thee to quarrel with him! He spoke before of God's making peace; and here he mentions the Armies by which he keeps it.

Either 1. properly, his Sun, which riseth upon all, Mat. 5. 45. Or rather 2. metaphorically, all that is in men, which is or may be called light, the light of life, by which men subsist and are kept out of the state of the dead, called a land of darkness, Job 10. 22. The Light of Reason and Understanding, called God's Candle, Prov. 20. 27. by which thou, O Iob, art capable of arguing with God and with us, and all that peace, and prosperity, and comfort which thou ever didst enjoy, which oft comes under the name of Light, as Esth. 8. 15, 16. Psalm 97. 11. & 112. 4. which being here called light, is to continue the Metaphor, most fitly said to arise upon men: all this is from God, and therefore is wholly at his disposal, he freely gave it all, and he may justly take it away; as thou thy self didst truly observe and confess, Iob 1. 21. and consequently thou hast no reason to reproach God for disposing of his own as he pleaseth. Thou hast lost nothing which was thine own, and having no propriety, there is no foundation for any judicial contest with God.

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